The Multiwavelength Environment of Second Bologna Catalog Sources
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES(2023)
摘要
We present the first results of the Chandra Cool Targets (CCT) survey of the Second Bologna Catalog (B2CAT) of powerful radio sources, aimed at investigating the extended X-ray emission surrounding these sources. For the first 33 sources observed in the B2CAT CCT survey, we performed both imaging and spectral X-ray analysis, producing multiband Chandra images, and compared these images with radio observations. To evaluate the presence of extended emission in the X-rays, we extracted surface flux profiles comparing them with simulated ACIS point-spread functions. We detected X-ray nuclear emission for 28 sources. In addition, we detected eight regions of increased X-ray flux originating from radio hot spots or jet knots, and a region of decreased flux, possibly associated with an X-ray cavity. We performed X-ray spectral analysis for 15 nuclei and found intrinsic absorption significantly larger than the Galactic values in four of them. We detected significant extended X-ray emission in five sources, and fitted their spectra with thermal models with gas temperatures similar to 2 keV. In the case of B2.1 0742+31, the surrounding hot gas is compatible with the intracluster medium of low-luminosity clusters of galaxies, while the X-ray diffuse emission surrounding the highly disturbed wide-angle-tailed radio galaxy B2.3 2254+35 features a luminosity similar to those of relatively bright galaxy groups, although its temperature is similar to those of low-luminosity galaxy clusters. These results highlight the power of low-frequency radio selection, combined with short Chandra snapshot observations, for investigating the properties of X-ray emission from radio sources.
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Active galaxies,Galaxy jets,Galaxy clusters
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